awesome-humanities-ontologies

provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation

an Extension of CIDOC-CRM to support argumentation

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and, increasingly, environmental science

linking people and information

for describing documents and their evolution

covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge

the richest and most common spatial ontologies, plus an optional SPARQL extension (hence the name) that supports spatial reasoning over geodata that are annotated with its ontology. Supported by various triples stores, such as TriplyDB (Druid) triple stores

The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations

INTRO

INTRO is an Intertextual Relationships Ontology for literary studies

set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be used to represent and interchange provenance information

NIE-INE ontologies

infrastructure developed to ensure long-term storage of data of scientific edition projects in the Humanities at the Swiss Universities of Basel, Bern, Zürich, and Geneva

A Lightweight Ontology for Describing Images

Time ontology in OWL

a gazetteer of period definitions for linking and visualizing data

an ontology for modelling events

standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web

schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond

combines multiple name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service

The Linked Art Data Model is a (CIDOC-CRM) application profile that can be used to describe cultural heritage resources, with a focus on artworks and museum-oriented activities. It defines common patterns and terms to ensure that the resulting data can be easily used and is based on real-world data and use cases

an ontology and RDF Schema to encode metadata about the archaeological excavation process (CIDOC-CRM extensnion)

proposal for structuring the data that Europeana will be ingesting, managing and publishing on museums, digital archives and digital libraries

an evolving vocabulary, growing and changing on art and architecture

Juso Ontology is a Web vocabulary for describing geographical addresses and features

The Person Name Vocabulary (PNV) is an rdf vocabulary and data model for persons' names

Ontology to describe person, location etc. observations in archival resources

a multilingual classification system for cultural content, the de facto global standard for subject classification

Events, works, expressions around classic music data

for publishing MIDI pieces, tracks, events, and their attributes

ontology for encoding music scores of western music

provides main concepts and properties for describing music (i.e. artists, albums and tracks) on the Semantic Web

Lemon is a proposed model for modeling lexicon and machine-readable dictionaries and linked to the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud

brings information about languages, words, characters, and other human language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web

a comprehensive ontology of drama

Literary Theme Ontology (LTO)

a taxonomy of defined literary themes for thematically annotating works of fiction

Taxonomy of Themes and Motifs (TTM2)

a taxonomy of approximately 1,250 Latin labeled themes/motifs, categorized into six different areas: Animalia [Animals], Arbores et virentia [Trees and Plants], Homines [Men], Dei et heroes [Gods and Heroes], Loca [Places], and finally Res [Things]